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A Day is Long and I will be Waiting for You by ThatArmageddonBoy
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10 Jan 2021
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Summary
During the initial rush of young volunteers to fight in the Great War, William Poindexter is busy tending to ships and his family with steady hands and a quiet courage. Once it’s clear that it won’t be over quickly, however, he feels no choice but to enlist in the service of Queen and Country.
In Eastern France, he meets American Derek Nurse, a singer and a poet who teaches him how to laugh and be free in a way Will hadn’t known he was even missing. Their connection is grounding in the uncertainty and dangers of the War they’ve both promised to return home from. But as is the way of War, their connection is unexpectedly shattered beyond repair.
Unless, by some miracle, an act of fate or God or perhaps just the force of a bond that can’t be broken, they can find their way to each other again in the midst of a new age of uncertainty and danger - the Prohibition